F9’s Jordana Brewster gets candid about eating disorders, mental health and sexist Hollywood beauty standards
- Starring as Mia Toretto in F9 alongside Vin Diesel, John Cena, Ludacris and Michelle Rodriguez, Brewster recently opened up about her life in an essay
- She had binge and restrictive eating issues during her marriage to Andrew Form, but has achieved ‘a level of peace’ with her body after years of therapy
After years of suffering in silence, Jordana Brewster, now appearing in Fast & Furious 9, is opening up about her past struggles with eating disorders.
In a personal essay for Glamour published on June 24, the star revealed she struggled with both binge and restricted eating during her marriage to fellow actor Andrew Form from 2007 to 2020.
“The first year of our marriage, I started to binge and developed an eating disorder,” she wrote. “[Form] was kind and safe and supported me. I knew something was wrong with me.”
According to Brewster, she “had no creative output or outlet” during this time and “felt isolated”, which further fuelled her disorder.
“While my husband worked a full day on set, I would do the occasional audition,” she continued. “I was bored. I would raid the mini bar at the Four Seasons for snacks and then promptly go downstairs to make sure it was restocked and paid for before my husband realised anything was missing. I had a buzzing sense of chaos within me that clashed with my actual inertia. I was stuck.”
A couple of years later, Brewster wrote, her eating disorder “swung to the other extreme”.